Trump’s Breitbart Hail Mary Represents A Dying Wing of the GOP

Donald Trump’s recent campaign management shakeup is a Hail Mary move meant to reincarnate his authentic, populist self, revive his outsider status and help him ride the combative populist sentiment that earlier propelled him along an astonishing path to the GOP nomination. But this approach is an unlikely path to general election victory. It’s a circle-the-wagons-against-the outsiders mentality that polls suggest is likely to fail since Trump’s only path to victory would be to attract voters who not already Breitbart News junkies.

By naming Breitbart News’ Stephen Bannon as his top campaign executive, Trump is taking a detractive, rather than additive approach to voter engagement, even among would-be allies on the right. Recently, Breitbart News has taken numerous shots at establishment figures like House Speaker Paul Ryan, who could have helped Trump if he had been interested in governing instead of bluster. But Trump’s slash-and-burn approach to the election has shown, as described in “The Art of War,” that he didn’t care about winning. That would have meant doing the hard work of cultivating party unity rather than division. Trump stubbornly thought he could win without shoring up the GOP, and this strategy is on the brink of failure.

What’s even more troubling for conservatives is contemplating what the party will be like after Trump’s likely November loss — providing there isn’t an 11th-hour, anti-Hillary email dump or a complete debate shellacking of Clinton by Trump. After November the GOP will face two choices: becoming the party of Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz or the party of Paul Ryan and Sen. Ben Sasse; a party of a dying demographic or a party of the future.

The Breitbart path is one of demographic obscurity. As Pew Research and other demographic researchers have shown, the United States is on its way to becoming a majority “minority” country, with the proportion of white voters, including those of the Breitbart News audience, shrinking by the year. Millennials are 42 percent nonwhite, and the majority of babies born today are from minority groups.

Trump is poised to create a demographic train wreck for Republicans, to become the Barry Goldwater 2.0 among Hispanics, thus permanently icing out an entire demographic group. In Cleveland at the Republican convention of the 2,472 delegates, only 18 were black, the lowest percentage on record. That’s lower even than in 1964, the year the Republican Party selected Goldwater as its presidential nominee. Undoubtedly, this stems in part from Trump’s off-putting language toward racial minorities, women, Muslims and other groups.

Sometimes it’s best to look at the positive things and not the negative.

Trump isn’t offering:

-Cash for Clunkers program

-Free / Cheap Health Care

-Give out free cellphones to people who can’t afford them

-Do away with tuition costs

-Go on a world-wide apology tour

-Go on vacation while Louisiana is underwater. I’m sure its Bush’s fault!

-Cause racial and class divisions

-To allow bankrupting execs to get YUGE bonuses for failing

-To support more massive government bailouts

-To pick who gets to have government contracts

-To take money from retired teachers and police officers

We know who the real party loyalists are. If Trump loses, everyone will know it was because of a small group of Republicans who didn’t get their way, and full-control of a false Republican narrative. 17 people who all thought they could beat Hillary, but not Trump. There are plenty of reasons why they didn’t get enough support. I will have a hard time supporting the Republican party in the future after seeing how this year has unfolded, and the reasons for not supporting democrats are obvious.

As for “demographic obscurity” – a greater number of Blacks and Hispanics believe in a nationalist-populist agenda for the United States than they do in neoliberal globalisation combined with neoconservative interventionism, which seem to be the leanings of this crap online journal I only saw a link to via Harvard Republican Club’s website.

Liberal cosmopolitans forget that the minorities they recruit and coddle are not actually liberal cosmopolitans, just a thin layer of ruling élite that you recruit from their ranks and send to élite schools to be their political lords and organise their votes.